Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Rush (Juncus), weft is Skunkbush (Rhus trilobata). Black and yellow colors are Rush (Juncus) dyed in Suaeda and Parosela. With decoration of one single broad band in light brown bordered by black. Old, bottom broken and repaired with leather.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Southern California
Culture or time period:
Cahuilla
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 19 inches and width 9.5 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. I, p. 93